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The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history.
List of contents
- Editor's Introduction
- 1: Mogens Lærke: Aspects of Spinoza's Theory of Essence: Formal Essence, Non-Existence and Two Types of Actuality
- 2: Stephan Leuenberger: Wolff's Close Shave with Fatalism
- 3: Ohad Nachtomy: Modal Adventures after Leibniz: Existence and (Temporal, Logical, Real) Possibilities
- 4: Jessica Leech: Kant's Material Condition of Real Possibility
- 5: Christopher Yeomans: Hegel's Expressivist Modal Realism
- 6: Thomas Baldwin: Russell on Modality
- 7: Peter Simons: Modality and Degrees of Truth: an Austro-Polish Sideline in 20th-Century Modal Thought
- 8: Mark Sinclair: Heidegger on 'Possibility'
- 9: John Divers: De Re Modality in the Late 20th Century: the Prescient Quine
About the author
Mark Sinclair is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Manchester Metropolitan University and Associate Editor at the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. He has published on the history of modern French and German philosophy in Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Journal of the History of Ideas and Intellectual History Review. He holds degrees in Philosophy from the University of Warwick, Université Paris Sorbonne and the Manchester Metropolitan University.
Summary
The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history.
